UPS, was RTL problem

2021-03-29 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am on an ups box so I don't understand how this happened. Hello Maureen, The UPS will protect your stuff from external power supply problems, but not from internal deterioration. Have you checked that your UPS is doing it's job correctly? If y

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
That could well be what happened.  We did have an electrician out here a few days before this happened for a completely different problem with the room next to where the computer is.  It may have been that for all I know.  Anyway it is fixed and so is the new computer.  Again thanks for all the

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-28 Thread songbird
Maureen L Thomas wrote: ... > So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and found that > two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking.  So I got a new > computer and all is back up and working.  I am on an ups box so I don't > understand how this happened.  Any way it can s

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Hi Maureen there was a flap a few years back about exploding capacitors on motherboards. But that can also be caused by power surges or misbehaving AC sources. You have a UPS so it filters the line power at least a bit, maybe hopefully. GDay On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 4:46 PM Maureen L Thomas wrote:

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and found that two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking.  So I got a new computer and all is back up and working.  I am on an ups box so I don't understand how this happened.  Any way Thank you for all your helping this old lady.

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
If you have a spare hard drive, at this point I would swap it in and reinstall. See how that goes. On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 2:02 AM Maureen L Thomas wrote: > So I did download your suggestion and it worked. It went all the way > through re-install with no problems. On booting for the first time I

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-27 Thread Maureen L Thomas
So I did download your suggestion and it worked.  It went all the way through re-install with no problems.  On booting for the first time I got the message fsckd-cancel-msg: Press ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem checks in progrees.   Well it freezes and nothing is happening.  It just stay that

Re: RTL problem

2021-03-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:59:04 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > So I decided to re-install debian 10.  > While doing so I get to the part about the entering the needed rtl > files which I have on DVD and on USB.  I tried both but neither of > them would work.  I cannot get it to even come up to a c

RTL problem

2021-03-25 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I have a Lenovo ideacenter 510A-15ABR, Amd A12-9800 that went crazy.  The cmos was frozen from too many attempts to get into it so I had to open it up and play the jumper game to reset it.  This went off without a hitch.  Once back together it would only boot to fsckd-cancel-msg:  Press CTRL+C